Vikram’s “Muse”

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

The Disappearing Penny

I am back in India for a short while - and while waiting for the power to come back on so I can get some more work done I decided to clean up my personal email. And as always, I found another testament to my claim that we were all ...

Creative India

Since the time when I use to bunk school to go watch TV (one government channel really, but it did carry cricket!) at neighbour's houses I was never let down by the amount of creativity displayed in Indian advertisements. I always look forward to watching a bit of tv when ...

LG’s C1 express Tablet makes an appearance

While I collate information for an update to my "In search of a perfect notebook" post, I stumbled upon something that looks very attractive: The LG C1 Express Tablet Convertible.  The person who posted it claims its a prototype and from the stickers on the chassis it seems to support ...

RSS Survey - Help Wanted

Are you a friend of RSS? My friend Neema and his team at Microsoft Research Asia Center for Interaction Design (MSR-ACID) need your help. Here is a very short survey that they would like you to fill on your RSS reading habits: English Survey, Chinese version. Results will be made available ...

January 24th 2008
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Troubleshooting driver problems in Vista

This is a problem that has confounded and caused no end of trouble to me and several friends/colleagues. Now that I seem to have found a fairly reliable solution, I wanted to highlight it here. Problem Symptom: Vista fails to find drivers for devices - typically USB devices. Often these ...
November 26th 2007
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Forever Star

As someone said on TV recently, "I don't want to give an eulogy because that would be acknowledging that he is gone" - I have been trying to block out this reality for a little while now. The last email I got from the man who I have often ...
September 18th 2007
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All ur Translation are belong to Us

Mike tells me that this is what he translates every time he finds a new translation service. So, I decided that I would run it through the new translator service that went into silent beta recently. German: Alle ur Übersetzung sind gehören uns Arabic: كلّ [أور] ترجمة ينتسب إلى نا French: Toute la ...
June 2nd 2007
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Business Models for India - Recycling

There are two kinds of disappointments to those with an entrepreneurial bent. One - the "in retrospect" kind and another - the "ideated but un-executed" kind. The first kind is where you look at something that just happened and say "that is so obvious", and the second kind is where ...
May 30th 2007
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Surface is here!

Sometimes some products need little introduction or explanation. They easily capture your imagination and make you say - "I want one!" Here is one such truly cool product from Microsoft: Microsoft Surface.  Lately there has been a TON of news around touch computing TED Multitouch demo, iPhone and so forth. I ...